Comparing Paradise Lost And The Street Bible

Eden and Eve are depicted in Genesis as God’s creation that tends to his Garden. But the Serpent tricks Eve into eating an apple from the tree of knowledge; which God forbid, causing man’s fall . This is one of the most commonly known Biblical stories, as such; it is impossible to have an entirely consistent depiction of it. There are also various versions of the text itself. A discussion about the differences between them, and the causing factors, will entail looking at several sources. Two versions of the text will be analyzed; The Street Bible (the word on the street) , and the New International Version . This analysis serves to show how and why some of the differences between depictions occur. The scholarly sources analyzed will be Christopher C.L.E. Witcombe’s article, Eve’s Identity , and Daniel K. Judd’s The Fortunate Fall of Man. Other sources will be John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ , along with ‘Jan Breughel and Peter Paul Rubens painting ‘’The Garden of Eden.’ But simply noting the depictions themselves only highlights them
The work goes into how the Fall is not necessarily the fault of Eve, but that regardless it allowed for the human possibility to occur, and that one cannot atone without having first sinned. Judd’s is an academic source and not just a depiction, whilst different in direction to Witcombe’s, provides an insight into the various understandings of the text itself. This is very useful for highlighting the differences of understanding that certainly would have shaped the consequential depictions of the scene set in Genesis, this is an important source for providing depth to the depictions that comes from said